JISC

Conference Opening  Dr Malcolm Read, Executive Secretary, JISC

Introduction by Conference Chair, Day 1
Alison Allden, Deputy Registrar, University of Bristol

Plenary 1: The JISC Vision for Digital Content 
Catherine Grout, Programme Director, e-Content, JISC

Achievements and challenges for the future

Catherine will give a presentation outlining the JISC vision for a national content collection. She will reflect on the last ten years of the JISC Content work, talk about the achievements of the JISC mass Digitisation Programmes, and discuss the many challenges.

Presentation (PDF)

Parallel Sessions 1

• Managing Content Strand  - Value for money and the economic challenges (Audio from the session)
• Content Development Strategies Strand - Content Procurement in an uncertain environment: what impact is the economic crisis having on library purchasing of online content? (Audio from the session)
• Content in Education Strand - Supporting academic practice: embedding content in teaching, learning and research (Audio from the session)
• User Engagement Strand - Making websites glamorous: Adding value to digitised content (Audio from the session)
• Looking Into The Future - What is the impact of user generated content on research and scholarship? (Audio from the session)

Plenary 2: A Modest Proposal - A California Digital Library

Robert Miller, Director of Books, Internet Archive

Think Global, Use Local

Introduction by Conference Chair, Day 2

Professor David Baker, Principal, University College Plymouth St Mark & St John

Parallel Sessions 2

• Managing Content Strand - Institutional approaches to content management and the digitisation life cycle (Audio from the session)
• Content Development Strategies Strand -  The Gorilla in the room (not Google!) - Copyright and Licencing. Seizing the initiative through supportive tools and methodologies: an international comparison (Audio from the session)
• Content in Education Strand -  New media content in education (Audio from the session)
• User Engagment Strand - What makes an online resource a well used resource? Users, impact and metrics
• Looking Into The Future -  Libraries of the future (Audio from the session)

Plenary 4: Urge and surge of international collaborations

Moderator: Sarah Porter, Head of Innovation, JISC

• Michael Popham, Shakespeare Quartos Archive project, University of Oxford Presentation (PDF)
• Susan Whitfield, International Dunhuang Project (IDP), British Library Presentation (PDF)
• Saskia de Vries, OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) Presentation (PDF)

 Speaker Abstracts

Parallel Sessions 3

• Managing Content Strand -  Safeguarding Investment and Maintaining Access: the role of Digital Preservation (Audio from the session)
• Content Development Strategies Strand - Digging into the data: text and data mining (Audio from the session)
• Content in Education Strand - Open Educational Resources (Audio from the session)
• User Engagement Strand - Beyond the Library walls: Business and Community Engagement (Audio from the session)
• Looking Into The Future - New technologies for delivering and accessing digital content (Audio from the session)